Data Lake Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Data Lakes
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Tyne and Wear requiring Data Lake skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Data Lake over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 - 48
Rank change year-on-year - - -4
Contract jobs citing Data Lake 7 0 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 2.87% - 1.44%
As % of the Database & Business Intelligence category 17.50% - 7.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile - - £555
25th Percentile - - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +13.21%
75th Percentile £374 - £650
90th Percentile £384 - £680
North East median daily rate £358 £850 £525
% change year-on-year -57.88% +61.90% -0.94%

All Database and Business Intelligence Skills
Tyne and Wear

Data Lake falls under the Databases and Business Intelligence category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring database or business intelligence skills in Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for database or business intelligence skills 40 29 65
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 16.39% 11.93% 18.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 14 55
10th Percentile £358 £381 £500
25th Percentile £400 £427 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £475 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.16% -20.83% +14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £488 £700
90th Percentile £665 £535 £812
North East median daily rate £460 £476 £575
% change year-on-year -3.36% -17.22% +9.52%

Data Lake
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Data Lake as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Data Lake in Tyne and Wear

Data Lake
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Data Lake in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Data Lake in Tyne and Wear

Data Lake
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Data Lake within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newcastle upon Tyne - 7 £358 - 10
Data Lake
North East

Data Lake
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) Jupyter
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Data Factory
2 5 (71.43%) Azure Synapse Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EMR
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon S3
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon SQS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Lambda
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (28.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Metadata
1 2 (28.57%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
General
1 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (100.00%) PySpark
2 2 (28.57%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) Spring
2 2 (28.57%) Spring Boot
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Data Modelling
2 5 (71.43%) API Integration
2 5 (71.43%) Data Transformation
2 5 (71.43%) ERP
2 5 (71.43%) Machine Learning
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Data Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Data Development
3 2 (28.57%) Data Integration
3 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (28.57%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 2 (28.57%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Databricks